The goal of my pond is to be a regular source of food for as much of the year as possible. Ideally, I'd like to pull 2 or 3 fish a week out for dinner year round. What species would you recommend? Yeah, I know: "It depends". :-) I live in NC. I was first thinking LMB but then realized that it would probably take a lot more acreage than I have to produce 2-3/week of eating size. So what about CC or BG as food? It seems to me that the problem is the "feast or famine" characteristic of raising fish where you have nothing when you are waiting for them to grow large enough and then when it's harvest time you have more than you can eat at once. Isn't there a way to space out the harvest so that you can eat them almost all year long once they reach a large enough size? Instead of draining the pond and harvesting all at once, why don't people harvest them slowly, only the amount that they can eat each time?